Rats have made the various aviaries at Singapore's only bird park their home and have been running amok in the bird ...

A forest-dwelling spectacle, this turkey-sized bird with its distinctive curly crest is a sight to behold in Central and South American rainforests. The Great Curassow is a large, ground-dwelling bird ...

We’ve embarked on a journey to uncover the stories of 10 of our planet’s rarest and most endangered birds. From the mysterious Kiwi to the majestic Great Curassow, these incredible creatures are ...

Two poorly known species have been rediscovered in south-east Peru. Sira Barbet and Peruvian Solitaire were both last ...

In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the middle of a puzzling case. The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a confirmed positive, state environmental and health officials said Wednesday.

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

There are about 40 million migratory aquatic waterfowl in North America, Osterholm says—which means there are plenty of potential bird-flu hosts, whose poop spreads disease. Read More ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...